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Carbon Disclosure Project
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organisation which holds the largest database of corporate climate change information in the world.

Energy calculator
In collaboration with Caubergh-Huygen, BAM Vastgoed developed a tool that can be used to calculate the energy load of new houses. This also fits in with BAM Vastgoed's view of thinking, doing and proving.

GHG-protocol
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions.

Passiefhuis
The Stichting PassiefHuis Holland (PHH) is an innovative joint venture between various companies in the construction sector that each want to make a fundamental contribution to reducing the energy demand in the built environment.

SenterNovem
SenterNovem promotes, on the request of central government, sustainable economic growth by creating a bridge between the market and the government, nationally and internationally. Companies, knowledge institutes and authorities can call upon SenterNovem for advice, knowledge and financial support. SenterNovem is an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Toolkit Existing Buildings
This toolkit consists of a practical set of solutions for the sustainable improvement of 1.1 million out-of-date houses (from for instance public housing corporations). The focus is on reducing energy loads and reducing CO₂ emissions.

Toolkit Sustainable Offices
As a follow up to the successful Toolkit for Existing Buildings, in June the Toolkit for Sustainable Offices will appear; a practical manual for the correct and efficient management of the development process of a sustainable office.

Toolkit Sustainable Residential Construction
As a result of social developments in the area of sustainable residential construction, the government is placing increasingly higher demands on CO₂ reduction, health and the (interior) climate of homes. The Toolkit Sustainable Residential Construction offers project developers, housing corporations, architects and municipalities a practical guide to meeting these requirements and for the communication with the residents of sustainable houses. This certainly applies now that a house is seen in the technical sense as a total system.

VROM "Clean and efficient"
The cabinet wants the Netherlands to become one of the cleanest and most energy-efficient countries in Europe. In the programme 'Schoon en Zuinig: Nieuwe energie voor het klimaat' (clean and efficient: new energy for the climate), the cabinet describes its aspirations for among other things energy saving, sustainable energy and storage of CO₂ underground.